Only a moron, or a piece of crap could write what you just did. Joe didn’t live up to his ideals? Joe Paterno was a vile and loathsome creature who facilitated another, even more vile and loathsome creature. He didn’t just make a mistake. He did evil.
I had no opinion of Joe Paterno prior to this scandal. Now, I hope he rots in hell.
Do you believe in homosexual adoption?
What are his good works? I assume donating cash to PSU and probably to the library. What else is there?
Hey, Adolph liked kids and dogs.
So much for honor and class...
He is scum who only cared about HIMSELF.
We were happy to see someone who was not only successful, but successful with honor and class.
Grow up and face the facts.
"You are what you tolerate"
Armpitball coach, a National Hero! Let’s build him monuments.
Mr. Bookends, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
Those are the facts. I don't think anything more needs to be said about the man's “legacy.”
Note to self: If I ever wake up with an irresistible urge to convince the entire FR that I’m a complete a**hole - write an vanity like this.
You’re probably just upset that the cover-up was unsuccessful (Sis-boom-bah!).
I am in Georgia, have no concern for Penn State nor Paterno. Could care less if they win or lose every game. But I am sure of one thing-—if I was told of anyone, be it coach, teacher, parent, anyone, I would report it and stay on it until I knew the problem was being taken care of. I have a son and a grandson and I can’t imagine the horror the boys and the parents are going through. This cover up made me sick as I read about it. I wish his wife would be put in a cell beside him because she is guilty of covering it up too.
Sorry if you feel the people on here are glad the mighty Penn State has been soiled. I would be willing to bet not many feel that way, they are probably parents and grandparents like me that learned 18 plus years a man molested young boys, people knew and nothing was done.
I was one of the wait and see people on this. I waited. Didn’t like what I saw. Those who first slammed Paterno were correct.
It doesn’t matter to me that some might have a dislike of Paterno. I don’t know why, if they even did. I never did. All I knew of him was his record and longevity, his public reputation and living legend status.
I’ve always focused on the heinous nature of Sandusky’s crimes that went on and on and on. Sandusky and his enabling wife make me physically ill.
Secondarily, I have thoughts that after the witnessed incident, coupled with everyone’s knowledge that Sandusky was always palling around with young boys and showering etc, right under their noses at PSU, something should have been done by somebody but nothing ever was.
Therefore, the abuse went on right there for years.
People say Paterno WAS in a position to have done something, but didn’t. Paterno’s family vows he didn’t believe Sandusky was guilty of anything other than unwise appearance behavior and had he realized exactly what Sandusky was doing he WOULD have done something.
This strikes me as possibly wishful thinking by Paterno himself. If he wasn’t very upset and concerned about the situation, enough to do much more, then I would think he simply refused to admit to his own mind the ugly truth.
My mind and heart are with the victims.
I cry for them.
Paterno?
Everyone knows his legacy, and everyone has to admit his legacy is tarnished, and the man has died and there’s no going back.
This is a case where the chickens came home to roost. Athletic programs have forever trumped a good education for the 'student' athletes, but now Athletic programs trump any crime committed by successful coaches and their staff.
I feel quite confident when I say that if I ever saw a child being molested in a shower, my immediate reaction would be impersonate Jack Tatum crippling Darryl Stingley...for starters.
This insane screed really deserves a zot. Defending the homosexual agenda has no place at all on Free Republic, a pro-God, pro-life Conservative forum.